I had been going by the assumption that PSR minimum should be 8 LUFS according to Ian Shepherd, but I just read his manual for the Meterplugs Dynameter and it says...
"Some sounds naturally have low PSR values without any additional processing. For example: smooth, sustained sounds, “sine wave” bass sounds, solo flute or keyboard pads, and long-held sung notes. Synthetic sounds like virtual instruments, and audio from sample libraries may also have naturally low PSR readings. If your music has “naturally” low PSR values without using compression or limiting, you don’t necessarily need to be concerned. However, check that no unwanted clipping is occurring, for example at an analog input, or in a fixed-point DSP host or plugin. This is especially true if you expected the sound to have a high PSR - for example drums or percussion. "
That makes a lot of sense to me.
So I've been fighting this randomly low PSR value or values in my music that are not really a problem because I have only a few points at most (sometimes only one) and it is due to the music level being constant for more than three seconds.
I'll be rewriting my guidelines for PSR now.
"Some sounds naturally have low PSR values without any additional processing. For example: smooth, sustained sounds, “sine wave” bass sounds, solo flute or keyboard pads, and long-held sung notes. Synthetic sounds like virtual instruments, and audio from sample libraries may also have naturally low PSR readings. If your music has “naturally” low PSR values without using compression or limiting, you don’t necessarily need to be concerned. However, check that no unwanted clipping is occurring, for example at an analog input, or in a fixed-point DSP host or plugin. This is especially true if you expected the sound to have a high PSR - for example drums or percussion. "
That makes a lot of sense to me.
So I've been fighting this randomly low PSR value or values in my music that are not really a problem because I have only a few points at most (sometimes only one) and it is due to the music level being constant for more than three seconds.
I'll be rewriting my guidelines for PSR now.